This music video by Bayview Sounds for their song “Home Alone” is very evocative of my trips to the northern and eastern Scottish coasts, with sea haar and low sun whilst driving along narrow roads. (The video was actually filmed in the far northern Scottish county of Caithness, which feels like the end of the…
Working in the web industry, I began getting fed up of trailing all the way to an office to work. When I moved to web agency Say Hello, I vowed to make the most of “remote working”.
This month’s set of photos is especially random, but that’s the whole point; not just of the ongoing photo series here on my website, but also in my life. The more varied and random, the better for me.
One of my hobbies is visiting less-than-salubrious destinations to take interesting photographs.
The “random things” posts are primarily about random stuff I’ve seen in the course of a month. The random stuff I saw in December was spread over four countries.
If you’re writing a plugin which needs to connect to a third-party service, there’s a relatively high chance that you’ll need to store credentials securely.
Using a third-party service to compare your website before and after a technical update.
Block Patterns, Block Variations and Reusable Blocks. How and why they’re useful and implementable.
Another year and another fresh start to a series of monthly recaps. (The complete set from 2022 is here.)
Building a single-selection category selector for WordPress Gutenberg using React.
A simpler alternative to wrapping a Gutenberg edit component with a higher-order component.
A good pool of light and a wet street will always draw my camera more quickly than a quaint festive scene.
How I used manual content structuring and the power of the WordPress Site Editor to set up what we believe to be the first non-plugin-based multilingual WordCamp website.
Going on large and small adventures has always made my life a little richer.
A trip to England, a lack of autumn feeling despite the vivid colours and learning how to set a fire.
The gradual arrival of autumn; clouds clinging to the mountains, fresher air and a wider variety of colours in the landscape. My favourite time of the year is coming.
WordPress development and photography by Mark Howells-Mead
